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The Use Of Layer 3 Devices To Manage Multicast Data On Your CCTV Network

Multicasting Explained
There are three types of communication between devices in a network:
Unicast - one device talks directly to another device
Broadcast - one device talks to all devices
Multicast - one device talks to a select group of other devices
In a conventional Ethernet network, most IP packets are sent using unicast transmission. Every device in a network can transmit and receive packets, which in unicast transmission are labelled with the address of the...